Excerpt from Sibylla, Vol. 1 of 2Some women can, ' said Lord Belmont. You, Sibylla, more than most I have often told you, efficiency is your strong point. I have always imagined you a leading figure in a political circle. That is your réle. It is your natural domain you will rule your world, and your world, with Montcalm to share your throne, will be worth ruling. But the great thing is that you are happy - thoroughly happy. He is all you wish?He is all I wish I am thoroughly happy, ' said Sibylla, with a rapt look, and a tone of determination, for her father's enquiry seemed to throw a shade of doubt on a point which she wished to be, for the future, outside the possibility of doubt. He loves me in a way that must make any woman happy-in a way worthy of him self, worthy of a noble nature. I have told him what I feel.' Then he must be happy too, ' said her father. 'well, Sibylla, I wish you joy much joy and peace - the happiness, greatest that life can give, of happy and congenial married life. To me, too, it means happi ness. Charles Montcalm is everything that I could wish, though I cannot share his political enthusiasm, but then I have been too long outside politics to be an enthusiast. But he fills a great place, he will rise higher still. He is ambitious his ambition will be gratified - one great part of it is already gratified. He has succeeded, he will succeed. A charming wife is the great success of life she makes other suc cesses inevitable.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.